Motivational Quotes

Fear

Fear is excitement without breath.

- Heller, Robert

Best Quotes about Fear

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Maclaine, Shirley

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

Craig, Roger

My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Nightingale, Florence

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

John Paul II

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

Paul, Jean

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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.

Proverb, Hasidic

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My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Dreyfuss, Richard

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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Eric Hoffer

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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

D'Amato, Cus

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The thing I fear most is fear.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Carnegie, Dale

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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Shakespeare, William

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Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.

Foreman, Ed

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It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Brown, Les

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Fear is what kills us.

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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hesse, Hermann

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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

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"Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.

Taylor Swift

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Everyone has certain fears, certain things that one cannot abide.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Smith, Frederick

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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Thomson, Virgil

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Horton, Doug

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I think over again my small adventures, my fears, These small ones that seemed so big. For all the vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing, The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns And the light that fills the world.

Inuit Song

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.

Eric Schmidt

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.

Dale, Stan

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Conrad, Joseph

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you.

Davis, Elmer

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Renard, Jules

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

Bradley, Francis H.

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.